More than a thousand observers from the Communist Party and Yabloko were not allowed into polling stations
More than a thousand observers from the Communist Party and Yabloko were not allowed into polling stations
As 7x7 calculated, on the first day of voting in the State Duma elections, at least 984 observers from the Communist Party and 350 observers from Yabloko were not allowed into polling stations.
🔹In Voronezh Region, 481 Communist Party observers were refused because no date had been placed next to the signature of the candidate for deputy who submitted the list of observers.
🔹In Leningrad Region, commissions did not allow 279 Communist Party observers into polling stations.
🔹In St. Petersburg, 250 Yabloko observers and 17 Communist Party observers were not allowed in.
🔹In Moscow, territorial election commissions denied access to 100 Yabloko observers, citing errors or incomplete data in the lists.
🔹In Tyumen Region, more than 200 Communist Party observers were unable to enter polling stations. The commissions said the lists had not loaded into the GAS Vybory system.
🔹In Altai Krai, Communist Party observers were not allowed into polling stations in the closed military town of Sibirsky.
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